Highscores for apps

[matchy]

That looks good. 

Now if only we had QR code in GLB. 

What stops you from writing your own qr-code generator? :-)

It's our own. 

So what to you think of my idea?

[MrPlow]

Hi Matchy,

So if I understand your idea correctly...Someone gets a highscore and the game displays a QR code...The user would then need a second "device" to scan and post that details?
(but this still requires a backend to save it? no?)

I am not sure how u mean it to work with user uploading/hosting their own image though...?

I believe there is a javascript version of QR code generator on the web somewhere...but I am not sure if its easier for the user...maybe easier for the developer...

[Moru]

I'm still trying to understand the benefit of using qr-codes for saving highscores online. QR-codes are easy to make on your own if you know how so is not useful for creating a safe highscore table. Saving offline because you don't have internet at the moment? Just save it in a file on the device and upload when there is internet next time. Instead of having the user to scan the QR-code from a screenshot, make it easy for the user :-)

[matchy]

The conceptual progress and reason for using QRCode is that there are some (gaming/vending) systems that are naturally isolated from the internet. An plain example could be an iPod touch in a non-WiFi zone but the user or friend may have any mobile camera phone with web access. There's surely something out there that does this, at least that's not actually marketing hook.

The reason I have been thinking about it is that in my case it is Arduino with a display and/or gaming shield. The only issue here is that the QRCode can be heavy on the program memory. Again, the idea would be that instead of typing in your high score in a web page the score and other info is transferred. Right now I'm not certain on the amount of data that can be sent but perhaps there would also be program/user key data also in the post query as just taking a photo is not a valid verification.